#balance

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#death #god #life #death

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you. ↗

— Mark Twain

#experience

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#balance #because #character #had #i

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#lot #mathematics #music

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#beauty #harmony #style #ugly #vice

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. ↗

— James Chanos

#always #aspect #balances #bones #checks

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ↗

— Prince Charles

#celebrated #edifice #imposing #like #medicine

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#become #checks #dictator #through #you

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World. ↗

— Brian Cox

#greener #i #i love #kinds #lost